Cookies Policy

As stated in our Privacy Notice, when you visit or interact with our sites, services, applications, tools or messaging ('sites'), we or our authorised service providers may use cookies and other similar technologies to help provide you with a better, faster and safer experience, and for insight, advertising or marketing purposes.

What is a cookie?

Cookies are text files which contain information about your internet usage that is held in your browser or on your computer’s hard drive. There are different types of cookie: some are essential for the site to operate properly, whereas others are aimed at enhancing and personalising your user experience. Cookies can help us to understand how visitors are interacting with our sites, which helps us to improve sites and to deliver better services to you.

What types of cookies do we use?

1.Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are essential to enable you to move around our sites and use their features. Without these cookies, we cannot provide some of the basic functionalities of our sites.

2.Performance Cookies

These cookies are used to monitor the use of our sites. These cookies collect information about how visitors use our sites, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and the pages that they don’t. This helps us to understand and improve our sites, so they are easier to use and include helpful content. They also allow us to fix bugs or glitches on our sites.

We use Google Analytics to track general usage of our sites. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies visitors, so we can’t identify you individually. Google provide a tool if you wish to opt out of Google Analytics.

3.Functionality Cookies

These cookies allow our sites to remember the choices you make as you browse the site. They provide more enhanced and personal features. The information collected is anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activity on other sites once you leave our sites.

How to control cookies

You can turn cookies off at any time by going into your browser settings, however this may have a detrimental effect on your user experience.

If you are happy to continue letting us use cookies in the ways set out in this Policy, to help us guide our work, then you need not do anything.

If you have any concerns about the cookies we use, please contact: webmaster@rina.org.uk.